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Hurricane Florence is on a collision course with the southeastern United States. The immense and powerful storm will create high winds and surges along coastal towns and cities, but scientists are more concerned about how...

Last August, Hurricane Harvey set records as the costliest hurricane in history and the wettest tropical cyclone ever in the U.S. The storm displaced more than 30,000 people, many of whom are still struggling to recover in...

Rising sea levels, precipitated by climate change, threaten to overwhelm the world's cities if we do nothing — that's the message Studio Roosegaarde vividly brought last week to the United Nations (UN) Headquarters in New...

More than six months since Hurricane Harvey decimated much of Central America and the American Gulf Coast, the public still doesn't have the answers it needs regarding the full public health impact of the powerful storm...

From The Daily Caller Michael Bastasch 4:08 PM 09/18/2017 Former President Al Gore said Monday that Hurricane Harvey brought once in 500,000 year rainfall to parts of Texas, only to be questioned by scientists challenging...

Houston Bike Share is distributing free bicycles to those who lost their vehicles in Hurricane Harvey. When the powerful storm dumped a record amount of rain on the Houston area, damaging at least 100,000 homes and killing...

Harvey unloaded around 33 trillion gallons of water in the United States, the weight of which is capable of bending the Earth's crust. From satellite data, it looks like this is what happened in Houston. Scientist Chris Milliner...

Harvey unloaded around 33 trillion gallons of water in the United States, the weight of which is capable of bending the Earth's crust. From satellite data, it looks like this is what happened in Houston. Scientist Chris Milliner...

Hot on the heels of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma is yet another natural disaster, Hurricane Jose. The “extremely dangerous” Category 4 hurricane is located east of the Leeward Islands and is forecasted to transit west-northwest...

Guest post by David Middleton Common sense from Roger Pielke Jr… COMMENTARY The Hurricane Lull Couldn’t Last The U.S. hadn’t been hit by a Category 3 or stronger storm since Katrina in 2005. We were overdue. By...

Several explosions at a Houston-area chemical plant were reported on early Thursday morning, reportedly related to its loss of power. Black smoke billowed from the Arkema Inc. chemical plant in Crosby, Texas as blasts rocked...

Melting Arctic ice and spiking temperatures don't just affect the northernmost part of Earth. According to Cornell University professor Charles Greene, they can also impact storms, like Hurricane Harvey, that are thousands...

Hurricane Harvey didn’t just devastate homes and businesses - it may also have totaled up to half a million cars. An estimated 500,000 Texan vehicles will likely be scrapped, leading to a massive sales wave of new and used...

People battling flooding and destruction in Texas after Tropical Storm Harvey face yet another hazard: fire ants. Photos on social media show patches of ants floating together through floodwaters - and though this behavior...